Would anyone else be interested in...

OldGoat

I'm always intrigued in how others interpret an image and how they process it based on that interpretation. When someone else edits one of your images it can highlight something you missed and or ignored. The ability to see various takes on the same image would allow us to compare our own vision more completely with others.

Seeing other peoples edits of the same RAW file could and should lead to some interesting discussion of editing and composition techniques, hopefully to give us all something new to think about.

I assume that the majority of the resulting images would be vary similar to each other as we photographers tend to work to a set of "rules" but there will inevitably be the occasion when someone edits the RAW file in a way that you'll find interesting.

I suppose it could be turned into a kind of a competition thread but for me the learning is the more important aspect of the exercise.

Is there merit in the idea? Would anyone else be interested in trying it on a semi-regular basis? I've not thought about how the original RAW would be shared but I'm sure there is a convenient Dropbox or similar that we could utilise.

Loki98

Tried this out about 2 years ago and we used dropbox to share the original raw file. It was fun while it lasted.
Here's a link to one of my raw files , if any one wants to take a stab at it they're welcome.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/80lzphypltu8xri/_MG_8746.CR2?dl=0

This is my version.



It would be interesting to see what results others can come up with.

OldGoat

Was that here? Damn my brain, I either missed it or forgot it.
"Senior moments with John" as the song goes in my house at times like this.

prusselstown

My humble effort

http://imgur.com/a/xkMNd

duckmusic

Had a go, but nothing amazing.

uck51js9zml2yt

Slighgtly OT but ....Loki, where was that taken?

Donal55

Scarlette Tasteless Bearded wrote: »

Slighgtly OT but ....Loki, where was that taken?

Id say its Mizen Head.

Donal55

Donal55 wrote: »

Id say its Mizen Head.

Doh!
Its the Bailey Lighthouse. It says it on the link.

Loki98

Yeah, it's the Bailey lighthouse in Howth

Adrian.Sadlier

A quick edit - CR adjustments and a quick trip into PS.

GypsyBiker

Here's my effort.

Heebie

I think this looks pretty "natural" for a cloud Irish day.
Probably not what I'd do with it if it was my image. I tend to like higher contrast, but there's already a significantly high contrast image.

Loki98

But the idea is to do what you want with it, go mad with it.

Heebie

Well, then maybe I'll go mad another day. I was a bit pressed for time today!

Question: Is the RAW format on the camera that was shot in actually 24-bit? I wasn't given any option in camera raw to go to any deeper bit-depth. (My cameras have been 12-bit per channel [36 bit] and 14 bit per channel [42 bit]) so I'm thinking either that particular raw format is only 8-bit per channel, or the camera raw importer in Photoshop CS <whatever-the-last-one-you-can-buy-instead-of-subscribe-to> has available doesn't handle more than 8/24-bit in that format.

Loki98 wrote: »

But the idea is to do what you want with it, go mad with it.

Loki98

Hi Heebie, I have to plead ignorance here. It's a copy of the original raw file, I haven't a clue about the bits depth.

hutman

_MG_8746 by hutman ****, on Flickr

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